Abstract

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SA Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacists
The District Health System
The DHS is an internationally
recognised system of providing health
care within a country, commonly
implemented using the Primary Health
Care approach and necessitating the
introduction of concrete decentralisation
processes within that country's
health provision mechanisms. The
essence of such a system is the moving
of health care from a centralised,
hospital-based curative service to a
decentralised, community oriented
health promoting service, managed by
peripheral levels of government.
In 1986, the WHO defined the DHS and
PHC as follows:
A district ..